Congressman Francis Rooney testified before Congressional colleagues during a meeting of the House Appropriations Interior and Environment Subcommittee, held earlier this week. This testimony focused on Interior Appropriations regarding the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan. Congressman Roon
The Florida Inland Navigation District, the Army Corps of Engineers and St. Johns County are hosting two workshops today to discuss the upcoming St. Augustine Inlet and Intracoastal Waterway dredging projects. The meetings are set for 2 p.m. and 6 p.m at the North Shores Improvement Association Comm
Pembrokeshire County Council’s planning committee has unanimously approved Conygar Stena Line’s application for first phase of the Fishguard Harbor Marina project. Conygar Stena Line is a joint venture between The Conygar Investment Co and Stena Line. This is the first of five phases of the developm
Following a detailed tender process, Forth Ports, owner of the Port of Dundee, has appointed Southbay Civil Engineering to deliver one of the largest investments in the history of the port. “Forth Ports is investing more than £10 million to create a new quayside with an industry-leading “heavy lift”
Royal IHC and DEME have signed a contract for the design, construction and delivery of the 44,180kW self-propelled cutter suction dredger (CSD) SPARTACUS. The concept and basic design for this 164 meters long mega cutter was done in close cooperation with DEME, Vuyk Engineering Rotterdam and IHC. CS
Brazil’s Minister of Transportation, Maurício Quintella Lessa, recently visited APM Terminals Itajai to attend the signing ceremony of an $11 million contract to dredge the navigation channel and terminal berths to a depth of 14 meters. The new depth will allow vessels of up to 9,000 TEU capacity to
MRTS Terminal LLC is interested in dredging of the main navigation channel at the seaport of Arkhangelsk to deepen it from 7.5 m to 9.2 m, according to the company’s Deputy Director General on Development, Nikita Ananyin. During recently held Dredging Forum in Moscow, Nikita Ananyin said that MRTS i
APM Terminals and Bollore Transport & Logistics executives, the sponsors of the Tema Port Expansion Project, have toured the existing Meridian Port Services Terminal (MPS) inside Tema Port and the adjacent port expansion project site, Ghana News Agency (GNA) just announced. On the tour of the port e
In little over three weeks’ time, the second edition of Flood and Coast conference and exhibition will gather key stakeholders from the flood and coastal erosion risk management (FCRM) community in the UK. This year’s conference – sponsored by Van Oord, VBA, CH2M, Aecom, HR Wallingford, Mackley and
The International Association of Dredging Companies’ (IADC) International Seminar on Dredging and Reclamation will take place from March 26-30th 2017 in Abu Dhabi. The seminar starts Sunday, March 26th at 8:45 hrs and ends Thursday, March 30th at 17:30 hrs. This five-day course strives to provide an
The Florida Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) has awarded more than $24 million in funding for 12 recent projects to continue efforts to improve water quality in the Indian River Lagoon. These projects will help communities to reduce or eliminate nonpoint source pollution and eliminate mu
The Palaszczuk Government is calling for tenders to undertake important dredging work ahead of the scuttling of the ex-HMAS Tobruk to create an artificial reef and world-class dive site in waters off Hervey Bay. Minister for National Parks and the Great Barrier Reef, Dr Steven Miles, said that the s
President of the Republic of Maldives, Abdulla Yameen Abdul Gayoom, inaugurated the official development of a new runway at Velana International Airport (VIA) in Hulhule yesterday. The project is awarded to Beijing Urban Construction Group (BUCG) from China. During the ceremony, the president was ac
The first phase of the Arkhangelsk seaport’s deepwater area is to be put into operation by 2025, reported the press center of the Arkhangelsk Region Government. According to report, the Region Governor Igor Orlov, submitted a declaration for the creation of this facility to FSUE Rosmorport during th
